This week, Facebook removed the page of the nationalist leader nicknamed the Buddhist Bin Laden, U Wirathu. “Our Community Standards prohibit organisations and people dedicated to promoting hatred and violence against others,” a Facebook spokesperson explained to Agence France-Presse.

Meanwhile, a group of 50 nationalists disrupted an anti-violence news conference in Yangon. The event by the Anti-False Buddhist Doctrine Committee, which was created to pressure the government to take action against U Wirathu, had to be called off. “We don’t want to see it turning into a fight,” Min Thunya, the committee’s founder monk, told the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency.